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La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known as just La Cañada (Spanish for 'The Ravine'), is a city in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains [7] in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located in the Crescenta Valley , in the western edge of the San Gabriel Valley , it is the location of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
A former high-ranking Los Angeles Building and Safety official who claimed he was fired after alleging fraudulent billing and other wrongdoing will receive a $3-million settlement from the city.
A Los Angeles County Department of Public Works sign along 7th Street in downtown Los Angeles. The department was formed in 1985 in a consolidation of the county Road Department, the Flood Control District (in charge of dams, spreading grounds, and channels), and the County Engineer (in charge of building safety, land survey, waterworks).
Los Angeles City Attorney, Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety 6262 Van Nuys Blvd., Van Nuys, CA 91401 34°11′03″N 118°26′55″W / 34.1843°N 118.4486°W / 34.1843; -118
Among the buildings at this intersection is the Hofstra Block, also known as the La Cañada Building at 1-17 North Santa Cruz Avenue. This area is defined by three brick party wall buildings, with the first one positioned at the intersection of West Main and Santa Cruz Avenue, featuring a circular bay window topped by a witch-hat roof projection.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was founded in 1850, was the first professional police force in the Los Angeles area. The all-volunteer, Los Angeles-specific Los Angeles Rangers were formed in 1853 to assist the LASD. They were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group.
The City of Chicago remains the only municipality in America that continues to use a building code the city developed on its own as part of the Municipal Code of Chicago. In Europe, the Eurocode: Basis of structural design , is a pan-European building code that has superseded the older national building codes.
In 1999, the Los Angeles City Council passed an Adaptive Re-Use Ordinance, allowing for the conversion of old, unused office buildings to apartments or "lofts."Developer Tom Gilmore purchased a series of century-old buildings and converted them into lofts near Main and Spring streets, a development now known as the "Old Bank District."